Un grand merci à tous pour votre soutien pendant ce projet. C’est grâce à vous ainsi qu’à de belles rencontres que j’ai pu aller jusqu’au bout. Ecrire n’a pas été facile. Je n’avais pas imaginé les multiples allers-retours, corrections et mises à jour avant d’arriver jusqu’à la version papier. Alors pour fêter ça, je vous…
Tag: Entrepreneurship
✨ Where will the copyright of the book go ✨
Rencontre avec l’un de mes amis Amadou Dabitao Salut à tous, Un grand merci à tous ceux qui ont déjà commandé. Pour cela, il suffit de répondre à cet email avec votre nom, prénom, tél et adresse postale ainsi qu’un Lydia, Pumpkin au 0652378783 ou virement de 22€ (livraison incluse). Parce que chacun peut avoir…
✨Launch of book pre-orders✨
Salut à tous, Je suis hyper excité de vous annoncer que j’ai reçu les premiers colis de livres de la part de l’imprimeur. Cette aventure a démarré il y a deux ans au début du covid. Pensant qu’il s’agirait d’un projet de quelques mois, je n’avais pas imaginé les multiples allers-retours, corrections, mises à jour,…
✨Can we use financial codes to fight social inequalities?✨
Rencontre avec l’un de mes mentors Alexandre Mars Salut à tous, Comment allez-vous ? J’ai à cœur de vous parler d’Alexandre dans cette newsletter car je dois l’avouer il ne m’a pas seulement inspiré, il m’a aussi convaincu de le rejoindre dans son aventure il y a plus de 6 ans. C’est au cours d’un entretien…
✨ How to keep peace in neighborhoods deserted by the police? ✨
Rencontre avec le Boss politique et militaire du bidonville Un grand merci pour vos retours sur la couverture. Vous avez été 80% à préférer la version en deux Durant l’été 2018, nous nous sommes rendus avec ma sœur Marine pour une mission en plein cœur du bidonville de Kibera au Kenya. Chaque soir, nous rencontrions…
✨ “At 17, she already had the spirit of a leader” ✨
Témoignage poignant de Faith 17 ans – Leader, étudiante & mère Un grand merci pour vos retours sur la couverture. Vous avez été 80% à préférer la version en deux parties qui a été confirmée auprès de l’éditeur ! Comme évoqué dans mon précédent mail, je vous propose une première rencontre incroyable avec Faith, une leader,…
Some of you have asked me the question: ✨”Why writing a book?” ✨
Je suis pas ni Gandhi, ni Elon Musk, ni un influenceur suivi par trois millions de followers. Pourquoi donc écrire un livre ? Pour être tout à fait honnête, je ne m’étais pas non plus posé la question jusqu’à ce que cette journaliste géniale me le suggère. Je me suis longuement posé la question suivante…
Have you ever asked yourself the question: ✨ “What if we could all act now?” ✨
Quand on allume la télévision, il y a de quoi avoir le moral dans les chaussettes: un attentat terroriste, des violences conjugales, une catastrophe naturelle… Faut il forcément faire un choix entre le monde des affaires et celui de l’humanitaire? Il y a une dizaine d’années, je me suis mis en route afin de trouver…
Hortense Launched A Coding Bootcamp in Beirut To Support Marginalized Youth and Refugees
Since childhood, Hortense has a profound sens of social justice specially when talented people can not realize their full potential. Against the odds, Hortense quitted a promising career at BCG to launch Codi, a free programming apprenticeship based in Beirut. Their mission is to use coding and digital skills to enable inclusion and employment, and as a catalyst…
Loubna is Fighting for Inclusion by Enabling Every Woman to Live from Her Cooking Talents
✋Nowadays, inclusion is one of the main challenge in France🇨🇵. Most people from different social background, country 🌍and religion do not know 🗣️each other and it often leads to misunderstandings. Back in 2017, Loubna with her two Co-founders found an impactful solution💡 which could be turned into a business🚀: Meet My Mama. It is an…
Hubert, The Mission Driven Man Who Recycles Bicycle Tires With Disabled Persons
👋Two years ago, Hubert identified🎯 a major pain point. In France🇨🇵, more than 400 000 disabled♿ persons were looking for a job and 10M old bicycle 🚲tires were burn every year. Can we combine social & environmental impact in a single company? YES! In 2017, La Vie Est Belt was born as a socially and environmentally…
Darong Transferred 5 schools for Deaf and Blind Children to the Ministry of Education in Cambodia
✌️We met Darong Chour, director of the 🚀NGO☀️ Krousar Thmey. A leading NGO based in Cambodia 🇰🇭supporting blind and deaf children👨👧. The adventure started because in the 1990s, there were no infrastructures🏗️ to support blind and deaf children. Education 👨🏫was the key🗝️ priority. To make sure children get a proper education👨🎓, the team developed a Khmer version of the Braille…
Frederic Is Leading A Team of 600 Water Entrepreneurs In Cambodia
👋We had the chance 🍀to cross the road🚶 of Frederic Dubois 👨who is leading a team of 600 water 💦entrepreneurs🚀. In rural areas⛏️, water contamination is the leading cause of disease🤒 and death ☠️in these populations. The association 1001 fountains, does it speak to you?📣 An exciting 😃adventure on access to drinking water 💦in rural areas! They are…
Rithy Ambitions To Create An Eco-Community To Protect 100 000 Hectares From Deforestation
👋At 17 years old, Rithy Thul👦 had lost almost everything 🙇… However, he is an entrepreneur at heart♥️ and a fighter⚔️! In his thirties, he is now the central 🎯figure of the Cambodia🇰🇭 startup ecosystem with a company producing state-of-the-art computers💻 mixing power 🌀and accessibility🔓, the first co-working 🏢space launched in Cambodia, as well as the status of the most…
Friends International Is Convinced About The Benefits Of Tech and Aims At Being Fully Digitalized
👋After completing our mission 🚀at Friends International which was to support 🤝on the identification and implementation of a recruitment platform to ensure the matching 🔥/ tracking🔎 of hundreds of beneficiaries👦👧, we shared our report📄. We have recommended the implementation of two integrated solutions🖥️: Oscar and Salesforce. What we really appreciated is their real desire to digitalize all their programs. We had interesting…
Friends International Set to Turn Street Kids Into Business Owners
👋Friends International was founded 🚀25 years ago by a French 🇨🇵social entrepreneur, Sebastien Marot. This NGO 🌠can be considered as a social enterprise. Their mission is clear: protecting marginalized children 👦👧and their families and training👨🏫 them with professional skills leading to a full time employment 👨💼in Cambodia 🇰🇭& South East Asia. We have been impressed by the professionalism…
Moussa Trains the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs To Fight For Social Integration
✌️In sensitive 💥urban areas in France🇨🇵, the unemployment rate is 2X📈 higher than the national average. For Moussa, economic integration is the cornerstone of social success🚀. In 2015, Moussa launched Les Déterminés, a mission driven🌠 NGO🌠 aiming at supporting the success of entrepreneurs in sensitive💥 urban and rural areas. Self-taught👨🏫 and resolutely audacious, Moussa started…
Enkhjin CEO of Gerhub – Innovation to Fight The Most Pressing Issues Of The Ger Areas in Mongolia
👋Did you know that every year hundreds of children 👶die ☠️in the Ger Areas due to pollution🌫️ & sanitation 🚽issues? Gerhub is a non-profit social enterprise that is using innovation 🚀to support local communities located in the Ger areas. Their main projects focus on researching🔎 and developing ways to affordably modify and modernize the Mongolian…
From Fashion with Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent To A Social Business Supporting 100 Women in Turkey
👋Have you already been in a situation where you can not stay without doing anything?🤷 15 years ago, Izabela Szeliga started a promising 🚀career at Yves Saint Laurent👚, dealing with world famous🌠 fashion designers such as Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent himself. However, after falling in love♥️ with a Turkish🇹🇷, she decided to quit…
Mesut Is Disrupting The Scholarship System With a Cutting Edge Technology Platform in Turkey
👋Did know that in Turkey🇹🇷 40% of the young graduates 👨🎓👩🎓are unemployed? Nowadays, many promising students are working hard ⚒️to make sure they could get a job 👨💼👩💼after graduation. However, being accepted in a tier one Turkish 🇹🇷or International🌍 University is not enough. They need to pay💰 for the University fees and many of them…
To Fight Pollution and Sanitation Issues,Odgerel Is Building Sustainable Community Infrastructures
🙌Why do Hundreds of Children 👦👧die 😥every year in the Ger Areas around Ulan Bator in Mongolia🇲🇳? There are two major issues💥: Heavy pollution 🏭& Sanitation ⚕️issues due to the absence of public infrastructures🏨. 60% of the Ulan Bator population👨 live in Ger Areas which are disorganized housing🏘️ areas built with very limited urbanization facilities…
Entrepreneur and Immigrant, Asmaa Uses Cooking as Powerful Weapon to Fight Prejudices
👋Can you imagine cooking 👨🍳as a powerful weapon🚀 to fight cultural 📚prejudices? That is Asmaa’s secret weapon! Born in Morocco🇲🇦, she studied accounting before immigrating to France🇨🇵. Without the right diplomas & cultural codes, her integration was a challenge ⛰️but she did not give up. After several jobs in accountability and telemarketing, she decided to…
Bulgarian Immigrant and Entrepreneur,Plamen Wants To Change Perceptions About His Country
👉Plamen is a Bulgarian immigrant & entrepreneur 👔who moved back to Bulgaria🇧🇬 with a bold purpose driven🚀 project in mind. Born👶 & raised in Bulgaria, he immigrated to Spain 🇪🇸when he turned 16 due to family reasons. After his bachelor degree, he spent a few years climbing the corporate ladder where he discovered that, he…
Sarah and Her Impact Driven Team Support 77 000 Disadvantaged in Bugaria
Few years back, Sarah would have never imagined launching Trust for Social Achievement a leading organization in Bulgaria with an ambitious vision: Help Bulgaria’s most disadvantaged achieve educational & economic success. After working a decade in large US institutions, she had the opportunity to conduct research on social inclusion in Bulgaria. Her lifetime mission became…
Aleksandar Co-Founded the Largest Bulgarian Media For Positive and Inspiring News
👉Who is fed up reading news🗞️ every morning 🥐about violence💥, sex 🔞 and drugs 💊across the world🌍? Personally, I am!😐 Especially when I know that so many inspiring known & unknown leaders are fighting⚔️ to make the world🌐 a better place! In Bulgaria 🇧🇬, I spent one evening🍺 with Aleksandar, the 🚀co-founder of Uspelite🚀, the…
Bob – CEO of the largest East African company fighting hard for transparency
Hi everyone,👋 Do you know Bob? 👋Bob is the CEO👨⚖️ of Safaricom🛰️, the largest company🏨 in East Africa. I met with Bob in Nairobi🇰🇪 to discuss about purpose💫, transparency & corruption. He is not only one of the most successful🚀 leader in Kenya but also an inspiring activist capitalist. For him, corruption is currently pretty rough💥…
Paul Duan — Data Science Genius Fighting against unemployment
Hi Everyone👋, I had the chance to meet with Paul Duan👨, the inspiring founder of Bayes Impact, the Y Combinator-backed NGO which builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies. By leveraging data science 💻, they achieved outstanding impacts: 800 police agencies 👮use their tool to reduce violence 💥…
Romain Sion 